Now dial. [UN-2 4.] trans. and refl. To divest of clothes; to undress, strip.
1485. Rutland Papers (Camden), 16. The King shalbe vnraied and vnclothed by his Chamberlayn.
1510. Bonavent. Mirr. (Pynson), xiv. E iv b. Now take we here gode hede howe that high lorde of mageste unrayeth hym and doeth of his clothes.
c. 1550. Cheke, Matt. xxvii. 28. Vnraieng of him, [they] put on him a scarlet mantil.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. II. 57. One of the Spaniards vnraied himselfe, and lept into the water.
1611. Cotgr., Desabiller, to vncloath, vndresse, vnray.
1825–. in s.w. dialect glossaries.
absol. 1867. W. F. Rock, Jim an’ Nell, lxxix. Zum … chap ’ll help thee to unray.
